Lancashire 240 (Bailey 59, Salt 55, Barker 5-67) and 9 for 0 drew with Hampshire 246 (Gubbins 101*, Fuller 55, Hasan 5-45) and 344 (Gubbins 130, Brown 72, Anderson 3-36) Rain thwarted Hampshire and Lancashire’s attempts to play out a potentially classic LV= Insurance County Championship final day. The first three days had set up the tantalising prospect of Lancashire needing 342 more runs and Hampshire requiring 10 wickets. But…
Durham 223 (Trevaskis 88) and 364 for 3 dec (Dickson 186*, Lees 105) drew with Sussex 538 (Pujara 202, Rizwan 79, Alsop 66, Haines 54, Clark 50, Trevaskis 5-128) Openers Sean Dickson and Alex Lees compiled the fourth highest partnership in Durham’s history as their LV= County Championship match against Sussex at Hove predictably petered out to a draw. They put on 313 for the first wicket with Dickson making…
Lucknow Super Giants 195 for 3 (Rahul 77, Hooda 52, Shardul 3-40) beat Delhi Capitals 189 for 7 (Pant 44, Axar 42*, Mohsin 4-12) by six runs Half-centuries from KL Rahul and Deepak Hooda, followed up by a special spell from Mohsin Khan sealed a tight six-run win for Lucknow Super Giants over Delhi Capitals on Saturday. For Super Giants, the win appeared in danger when their dropped catches and…
Big picture What has clicked for Kolkata Knight Riders this season? Their retained, upcoming batter Venkatesh Iyer? Nope. What about the million-dollar buy Pat Cummins, and the mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who too was not let go? Well, both have been dropped. So has Ajinkya Rahane, as Knight Riders have tried five different opening pairs – and four in their last four games – including shunting Venkatesh from the top…
Gloucestershire 443 for 2 (Dent 207*, Harris 124, Hammond 75*) trail Surrey 603 (Smith 234*, Clark 137, Pope 84, Curran 64) by 160 runs Rediscovering his best form when it was most needed, Chris Dent scored a superb double-hundred and batted all day to frustrate First Division leaders Surrey and usher Gloucestershire towards safety on day three of this LV= Insurance County Championship match in Bristol. Responding to Surrey’s imposing…
May 2: Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals, 47th Match, Wankhede Stadium Safe XI: Jos Buttler (c), Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer (vc), Devdutt Padikkal, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Prasidh Krishna Captain: Jos Buttler With 566 runs in nine games at an average of 70.75, he is currently the highest run-getter in the series. He loves batting at the Wankhede Stadium where he…